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Teens Discover the Delights of Dancing at the First Annual DDR Competition!

Teens had an opportunity to demonstrate their eye-to-foot coordiantion at the First Annual Dance, Dance Revolution Competition on Saturday, November 17th, in the 2nd Floor Meeting Room. Dance, Dance Revolution, for the uninformed, is a video game that requires players to stike arrows on a dance pad in coordiantion with arrows on a video screen. While this sounds like a simple task, the game is really quite challenging. Built into the play are various levels of difficulty.

Twenty-five teens and spectators watched as the battle became fierce. Play began with a preliminary round where dancers were allowed to practice the levels of play before the competition began. Players were assigned a number on a "first come, first serve" basis, then players were grouped according to order. Players chose their qualifying song during the preliminary round. Participants moved from Standard Play to Heavy Play with the losers being eliminated at the various rounds. A light luncheon of a salad bar was provided during rounds. At the end of the day, only one winner was left standing and that person was Kai Johnson. Runners up were Kensey McGarland and Michael Graff.

While rounds were being played, teens also had a chance to play board games during the lull in play. At the end of the day, teens challenged one another in the "Toilet" Bowl, just for fun. It would appear that DDR might become a tradtion at the Quincy Public Library

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Conspirarcy Corner

by Gabe VanMickels

Greetings readers, it is with no matter of silliness that I now convey yet another danger that has been right in front of our eyes for a long time. It seems to be everywhere: in theme parks, in county fairs and even in those over-priced kids fun places like Bonkers or the Discovery Zone. It seems innocent in nature, but that could not be any further from the truth. It is actually a Nazi plot intended to cause the horrible fiery deaths of millions of Americans. This danger of which I speak could only be bumper cars.

True, they may seem harmless enough, but if they were ever able to accomplish their intended purposes, it would be a horrible price to pay indeed for that "innocent fun". It is fairly common knowledge that Hitler wanted to create as much death and destruction as possible. What isn't common knowledge is that his sights were at one point set on the U.S.

His spies managed to introduce bumper cars as a way to entrain poor driving skills into American children. The point of this is that when they were older, he hoped that their driving skills would be such that they would all crash into each other and cause a whole lot of dieing.

The second purpose of his introduction of bumper cars is that it made it so easy to kidnap victims for his vile experiments. Most people foolishly assume that the antennae attached to most bumper cars attach them to a power source. In actuality however, it is an antennae similar to that of a remote control car. The design was such that if he chose, he could remotely drive the car out of the rink and chauffer the captured quarry to his camps.

Neither was successful and the Nazi regime fell. One should however remain cautious because one never knows when some maniac will come along and attempt to use the technology that we as Americans continue to use in seeking fun.

Yours in secret,

Gabriel

Poetry Corner

Algebra Two

Algebra two
Made me blue
I don’t know what to do
It feels like the flu.

Wasting my time
Just writing this rhyme
Wonder if a mime
Can do math for a dime.

Q U and B
A squared equals C
Is this the key
To life happily?

Numbers float around
Swiftly with no sound
Teacher hunts like a hound
Homework builds pound by pound.

Sidney Shackleton

Senior

Quincy Notre Dame